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Like most other oral forms of poetry, the authors are unknown and poem are passed down from generation to generation. There is a strong link between Sotho music and Sotho poetry. A Sesotho praise poet characteristically uses assonance and alliteration. Eloquence or ‘bokheleke’ is highly valued in the sotho culture and people who possess ...
Ditema tsa Dinoko (Sesotho for "Ditema syllabary"), also known as ditema tsa Sesotho, is a constructed writing system (specifically, a featural syllabary) for the siNtu or Southern Bantu languages (such as Sesotho, Setswana, IsiZulu, IsiXhosa, SiSwati, SiPhuthi, Xitsonga, EMakhuwa, ChiNgoni, SiLozi, ChiShona and Tshivenḓa).
Lebollo la banna is a Sesotho term for male initiation.. Lebollo is a cultural and traditional practice that transitions boys in the Basotho society to manhood. It is a rite of passage where bashanyana or bashemane (transl. "uncircumcised boys") pass puberty and enter adulthood to become monna (transl. "men") by circumcision.
Seipone sa madimabe. an anthology of poetry won him the E.M. Ramaila Prize in 1985. 1981. Kgaa kgati tSa khwiti ya noka yeso. an anthology of poetry. 1983. Malopo a boreti. "one of his masterpieces". 1983. [17] Sefahlego sa pelo ya ka. 1991. Some of his poems appear in M.S. Serudu's collections Ma!Swela (1989) and Sesegotheto (1989).
Like all other Bantu languages, Sesotho is an agglutinative language spoken conjunctively; however, like many Bantu languages it is written disjunctively. The difference lies in the characteristically European word division used for writing the language, in contrast with some Bantu languages such as the South African Nguni languages .
While Thomas Mofolo's work has been widely examined, his life story has been largely overlooked and no complete biography has been published. [1] What is known stems from a short autobiographical sketch that appeared in 1930, the work of Daniel Kunene in the 1980s, and more recent archival research by the curator of Morija Museum and Archives.
Lithoko tsa Marena a Basotho (The praise poems of the Basotho kings), published 1921; Har'a libatana le linyamatsane (Among the predators and the prey) Co-authored Grammar of the Sesuto language. Bantu studies Vol. III. (Johannesburg: University of Witwatersrand press, 1927).
The poems include qasidas (a lyric form) and ghazals (a metrical form expressing the pain of loss and the beauty of love), and are arranged alphabetically according to qāfiya (the effect of rhyme). The collection was compiled during the reign of 'Abd al-Raḥmān Khān, emīr of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901.